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In its Communication on the data-driven economy, the European Commission outlines a raft of measures aimed at helping SMEs exploit Big Data to win new commercial opportunities.
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Three computer scientists, Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee and Bo Pang, have built an algorithm that also makes these guesses, as described in a recent paper, and the results are impressive.
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Travelers at Dusseldorf Airport in Germany don’t even have to park their cars anymore. Last week the airport begin a using self-driving robot that resembles a forklift to deliver some cars to and from an appropriate parking space.
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The conventional view of innovation is that it is something that just takes place idiosyncratically in Silicon Valley garages” and R&D laboratories. But in fact
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While start-ups like Uber are frequently seen as the enemy of traditional independent merchants, some new tech companies see big opportunity in serving local stores.
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A law professor argues that a new federal agency is needed to keep pace with technological change.
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Data is more accessible today than anyone could have imagined 10 or 20 years ago. From corporate databases to social media and embedded sensors, data is exploding, with total worldwide volume expected to reach 6.6 zettabytes by 2020.
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For the past few centuries, the Western world has witnessed a contest of historic visions.
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Cutting edge data-driven analysis directs Los Angeles patrol officers to likely future crime scenes – but critics worry that decision-making by machine will bring ‘tyranny of the algorithm.’
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Insurance company backers of a bill to tighten requirements for ridesharing companies are taking nothing for granted in a battle with such high-tech companies as Uber and Lyft.
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Google gets all the love when it comes to self-driving cars, and all the biggest automakers are well on the way to selling us autonomous vehicles. But a startup run by a bunch of MIT grads plans to make almost any car on the road autonomous, and do it a whole lot faster-and cheaper-than those guys.
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In recent years, students have been paying more to attend college and earning less upon graduation-trends that have led many observers to question whether a college education remains a good investment.
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As of this month, the U.S. economy’s recovery from the Great Recession is five years old. But given how most Americans rate it, they can be forgiven for not feeling much in the mood for cake and ice cream.
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Just over 50 years ago, the cover of Life magazine breathlessly declared the point of no return for everybody.” Above that stark warning
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One in five people in their 20s and early 30s is currently living with his or her parents. And 60 percent of all young adults receive financial support from them.
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NESTA’s book Our work here is done: visions of a robot economy” was launched yesterday. I had the honour to contribute a chapter to the book
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Health care has always been a sector ripe for disruption, and now with Google and Apple launching new initiatives for digital health, we’re getting a glimpse of how it might actually happen.
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Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University.
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Starbucks soon will be helping college kids with more than pulling all-nighters. The company best known for its pricey java chip frappuccinos said Sunday it will pay a huge chunk of college tuition for its baristas and the rest of its 135,000 U.S. employees through a new partnership with Arizona State University.
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Erik Brynjolfsson believes new technologies have as much potential as the big inventions of the past to transform the economy.
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Two outpost offices of the National Weather Service in Alaska are finally ending what has been a bygone practice for most of the nation for almost two decades-using real human voices in radio forecast broadcasts.
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The question for Uber as a business boils down to two words: network effects.
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From Uber to AirBnb, regulators are being rubbed up the wrong way. Are the rules outdated-or are firms breaking the law for a quick buck?
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With the government’s latest monthly employment report, the American job market has entered a bewildering good news/bad news phase.
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Tech visionaries are willing to spend to simulate human intelligence, writes Anjana Ahuja.
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Has political hierarchy in the form of the state met its match in today’s networked world?
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We share our cars, homes, even our genetics these days but what does this all mean for workers and micro-entrepreneurs?
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Apple is betting that self-tracking will become more common, and more clinically important.
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Whether you are trying to secure venture funding or funding from the crowd, there are several billions of dollars up for grabs and anyone has a chance to claim their piece of the pie.
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The differences between the rich and everyone else are about health and opportunity.
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Researchers at IBM, Berg Pharma, Memorial Sloan Kettering, UC Berkeley and other institutions are exploring how artificial intelligence and big data can be used to develop better treatments for diseases.
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Our country has suffered from rising income inequality and chronically slow growth in the living standards of low- and moderate-income Americans.
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The American Dream is dead-at least according to six in 10 respondents to a new CNNMoney poll about the state of the nation.
